June 20 Marks World Refugee Day Editorial Image

Tawfiq Shanaa, a 66-year-old man, plays the oud as he performs traditional Palestinian songs outside his house in the Rafah camp for Palestinian refugees in the southern Gaza Strip on June 20, 2020. - June 20 marks World Refugee Day, a day dedicated by the United Nations General Assembly to raising awareness of the situation of refugees throughout the world. Some five million individuals are refugees registered with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees UNRWA, of whom more than 1.5 million nearly one-third live in 58 recognised refugee camps in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank including East Jerusalem, in addition to Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. Palestine refugees are defined by the UNRWA as `persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict.` Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib